Green and Blue Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Urban Resilience: Best Practices and Adaptive Implementation
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability and built environment; design for health and wellbeing; inclusive design; architectural and urban design
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Interests: architectural heritage studies; architectural design; urban design; smart and sustainable built environment; healthcare environmental design; smart heritage; environmental urban planning and public health
Interests: sustainable built environment; smart cities and urban informatics; urban climatology and thermal balance; environmental urban planning and public health
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Interests: design engineering; sustainable home and community; environmental experience design
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Special Issue Information
Facing the widespread impact of climate change associated with global warming and urban heat island (UHI) effects, green and blue infrastructure (GBI) offers nature-based solutions (NBSs) that create resilient and sustainable built environments. GBI includes urban forests and parks, green streets and alleys, green and blue roofs, green walls and vertical greening systems, community gardens and rain gardens, rivers and lakes, and wetlands and water features. This Special Issue aims therefore to bring together recent studies, best practices, and innovative adaptive strategies for GBI that tackle the challenges and barriers involved and seek out any available opportunities. The findings collected in this Special Issue will contribute to the growing body of knowledge on GBI and will provide insights for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working on sustainable development and livable cities.
Relevant topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The impact of climate change and the benefits of GBI for the built environment;
- The challenges of and opportunities for promoting GBI;
- Innovation and the adaptive implementation of GBI;
- Policy, governance, and management associated with GBI;
- Best practices and design strategies for various types of GBI;
- GBI, biodiversity, and livability;
- GBI, water sensitive urban design, and stormwater management;
- Community engagement and participation in GBI planning and decision-making.
Dr. Hing-Wah Chau
Dr. Shiran Geng
Dr. Elmira Jamei
Dr. Masa Noguchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green and blue infrastructure
- urban heat island effect
- nature-based solutions
- resilient and sustainable built environment
- biodiversity
- liveability
- water-sensitive urban design
- water-sensitive stormwater management
- community engagement
- global warming
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